Casey Breen
caseybreen.bsky.social
Casey Breen
@caseybreen.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ UT-Austin, Dept of Sociology and Population Research Center. Postdoc @oxforddemsci.bsky.sociall‬. Demography PhD UC Berkeley.

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Our estimates show large gaps in adoption levels and gender inequality within and between countries.

In most countries, adoption is increasing over time and gender inequality is decreasing — with notable exceptions, such as Afghanistan in 2021 following the Taliban Resurgence.
October 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We construct these subnational estimates by training machine learning algorithms on Facebook user count data,
satellite and geospatial data, and household survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).
October 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM